[ale] OT: more info on where all the jobs are (going...)

Mike Panetta ahuitzot at mindspring.com
Sat Mar 15 22:12:15 EST 2003


On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 11:55, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 14:26, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > I value your opinion in this case. However, I don't think that corporations 
> > are short-sighted, blind or stupid.
> 
> Corporations are neither short-sighted, blind or stupid. They are
> single-minded. That single-minded purpose is bottom-line profit. That is
> the only reason corporations exist. They will do anything to boost that
> bottom line. As a rule, corporations have no morals. As morals have no
> weight on the balance sheet, there is no reason to have morals. So they
> don 't.
> 
> If a corporation sees that they can produce their product for lees cost
> that they are right, they will change production methods. There is no
> thought to any factor other than the bottom line.


Isn't the bottom line kinda pointless if there is no one left employed in
a capacity that would allow them to buy the product for the prices its sold
for?  I see (or rather hear of) all these companies outsourcing all the IT work,
and yet I do not hear of any of them reducing prices.  How can anyone but
other corporations afford to buy any of these software products if the price
is not reduced?  Even if all IT workers in the US went out and found lower
paying jobs tomorrow just to put food on the table, how could they afford to
purchase any of the products that are being manufactured by these companies?

How can corporations exist without employees?  Someone somewhere has to produce
what the company sells.  There also must exist a consumer to buy the product.
A consumer cannot consume without the resources to do so, so they must seek 
employment at a corporation.  If all corporations outsource all their employees,
they will have lost their consumers as well...  Or am I missing something?

I do not for see this as being anything but a disaster for the economy of the US.
It seems that capitalism has failed...

Mike

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